Paris, July 12 A trillion-tonne iceberg, one of the largest ever recorded, has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, scientists who have monitored the growing crack for years said on Wednesday. “The calving occurred sometime between Monday, July 10 and Wednesday, July 12, when a 5,800-square kilometre section ofRead More

Washington, July 11 Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed a new electrode design that may allow smartphone batteries to be charged within seconds. Researchers in Drexel University in the US used highly conductive, two-dimensional material called MXene to design the electrodes. The design could make energy storage devicesRead More

New Delhi Travelling veterans would often tell you tales of how they scanned cities and tourist destinations with nothing but a few rupees in their pockets. Well, intelligent planning, and no frills attached travelling can actually make this possible. If you are an avid traveler, who loves to set outRead More

New Delhi Sony India on Monday launched a new high-power, portable home audio system at Rs 33,990 in India. The product will be available across all Sony Centres and major electronic stores from July 13. ‘MHC-V50D’ is equipped with the latest motion control to manage the selection of tracks. TheRead More

Samsung has long been a rival of Apple and every smartphone flagship that the company has launched was considered as an iPhone rival. But statistics have always shown that the devices manufactured by the South Korean firm had little or no impact on sales of its Cupertino-based rival. And thisRead More

Smartphones these days are showcasing the rapid progress in the world of technology. What was once a boxy plastic shell with countless keys has turned into an all-glass slab with borderless display and DSLR-rivalling camera. While various parameters like displays and cameras have gained incremental leaps, one area still hasn’tRead More

Washington NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a hidden galaxy IC 342, which is a challenging cosmic target. Although it is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where the sky is thick with glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dark, obscuring dust. InRead More

Washington Scientists, including those of Indian origin, have developed a new battery-less cell phone for the first time, which consumes almost zero power and runs by harvesting energy from ambient radio signals or light. The team also made Skype calls using its battery-free phone, demonstrating that the prototype made ofRead More

New Delhi, July 6 Every time her toddler refused to eat, Paramita Chatterjee pulled out the iPad or phone, put on a Snow White story and the food on the plate would disappear in no time. The harried working mother thought she had learnt the trick to easy and quickRead More

Paris, July 7 France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, the media reported. On Thursday, Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal, reportsRead More